Conservative writers and commentators grew increasingly vocal on Election Night about the need to broaden the Republican tent, particularly to include more Hispanics.

“The Romney campaign to the [Hispanic] community was atrocious and, frankly, the fastest growing demographic in America isn’t going to vote for a party that sounds like that party hates brown people,” wrote Erick Erickson at RedState.com. “That does not mean the GOP must offer up amnesty. It does mean that a group that is a natural fit for the GOP on social issues, must in someway be made to feel comfortable with the GOP.”

Mitt Romney secured only about 30 percent of the Latino vote, according to exit polls. He fared worse with that demographic than did the two preceding GOP nominees, reports indicated. That spurred some soul-searching from the right.

“Our party must do better with young voters & Hispanics,” tweeted Alex Schriver, the chair of the College Republican National Committee. “They are BOTH existential threats to our movement. Let THAT be the lesson of 2012.”

GOP strategist Mike Murphy also offered a harsh assessment.

“We have a Latino problem that just cost us a national election,” he said on NBC, also bashing the GOP primary process. “We’re going to have to have a very adult conversation that might turn into an inter-party fistfight about how we become electable again.”

In an interview on Fox News Tuesday night, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee slammed his party’s approach to minorities.

“I think Republicans have done a pathetic job of reaching out to people of color, something we’ve got to work on,” Huckabee said. He added later, “Republicans acted as if they can’t get the vote, so they don’t try. And the result is, they don’t get the vote.”

John Weaver, a veteran of GOP campaigns including Sen. John McCain’s 2008 run, offered, “Any increase in Hispanic voting is bad for MR, but good for the country.”

Ana Navarro, who served as a Hispanic national co-chair for the McCain campaign, chimed in: “Republicans, there’s no time for navel gazing. We need to have a serious conversation about how to bring Latinos into our Party.”